20 MODERN FRUIT MARKETING 
berries it is customary to pay 114 cents a quart; in 
Michigan, about the same; while in New England states, 
2 cents is often paid. In the case of the raspberry or 
blackberry, often as high as 3 or 4 cents a quart is paid. 
Keeping Records.—Where berries or fruit are picked 
by the quart it is necessary to have some system of 
keeping records. This is usually done by means of 
Fig. 15—A BAND CF APPLE PICKERS IN MAINE 
tickets. Small pasteboard tickets, on which are printed 
the various number of quarts, are handed out to the 
pickers as they bring in their carriers of berries. Some 
of the tickets have several numbers marked around the 
border and a place in the center to write the picker’s 
name, and as the berries are brought in, the super- 
intendent or foreman punches out the number corre- 
sponding with the number of quarts brought. 
This method has not always proved satisfactory be- 
